lyditen.
/ˈlɪdʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
= Lydian-stone n. at Lydian adj. 3.
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1816 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 192 Lydit.
1861 H. W. Bristow Gloss. Mineral. 223/2 Lydian Stone..Lydite.
1907 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 63 31 It is by no means a pure sand; there are no ‘lydite’ or other pebbles.
1948 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 14 129 Brown and purple quartzite cobbles, pieces of vein quartz and of lydite.
1968 Mineral. Abstr. XIX. 333/1 Six chemical analyses of phyllites and clay slates are listed; these are in zeolitic and greenschist facies and contain grapholite-bearing lydites.
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